Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Burnham is an architect-engineer for Du Pont. He was bored stiff by the hand work of reducing 16-inch squares of gauze to four-inch sponges-at four minutes to a sponge. He went home and said so. Then in self-defense he invented a semi-automatic bandage folder that would do the job in one minute. The device was made of wallboard, hinged with cloth tape, and was worth about 30?. Later, saturated fiber sheet and waterproof adhesive tape were used. Mr. Burnham gave the Delaware Red Cross full patent rights...
White will be the attire at all official functions, but on occassions where semi-formal civilian dress is in mode, service dress blue, D, can be donned, unless otherwise directed. A turned down collar or standing wing collar may be used when service dress blue, D, is prescribed...
...Chicago style. Bud Freeman, not Chicago style is the father of the jam session tenor. Then, too, many of the original Chicagoans have left the fold. Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman, who still gives us a faint aroma of Teschmaker, Muggsy Spanier, and countless others are fronting commercial or semi-commercial bands...
...instructor, tutor, and assistant professor at Harvard. It is pretty well established that he graduated here in 1923, taught English for two years, and then joined the Atlantic staff. In those days the self-assured calm of the monthly had not attained the heroic proportions that recently made a semi-scandal out of color-of-cover innovations. Morrison indirectly participated in three memorable episodes when the Atlantic published Felix Frankfurter's Sacco-Vanzetti case analysis that stirred up a new trial, copious New Salem Lincolniana that later proved completely "cooked up," and Al Smith's "hot" literary rebuttal...
...busy weekend is in store for the Stahlmen. After the Red Sox get through with them today, they will take on the Lincoln Mohawks, a semi-pro outfit, tomorrow afternoon at Soldiers Field. Joe Phelan, Jack Farley, or Bud Mains will be on the mound...